THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 
The very crispest and sweetest of vegetables will be 
those that you grow in your own garden, or they will be if 
you have the necessary care-how and know-how (and the 
second will soon follow the first). Your own vegetables 
really can be far better than any you buy, fresher, more 
appetizing, and, too, you can grow kinds in the home gar- 
den that are of the very highest table quality, yet would 
not be tough enoveh to stand a long haul from commercial 
truck-growing areas. Beyond all that, they will taste better 
anyway, for they will be seasoned with the thrifty and 
piquant sauce of accomplishment. 
ALL VEGETABLE SEEDS ARE SUPPLIED POSTPAID. 
unless actual statement to the contrary is made. You need 
add to our prices only the amount of any sales, purchase or 
similar taxes that may be levied or in effect. As to CUL- 
TURAL DIRECTIONS, they are not printed on the packets. 
Instead we send out with each lot of seeds a folder that 
contains in ready reference form, all necessary directions 
beyond those given here. 
IN ORDERING VEGETABLE SEEDS please use the 
numbers before the names. Of course you can use 
the names, too, although the numbers are enough 
just by themselves. Using the numbers will help us 
to fill your order more speedily, get the seeds back 
to you more quickly, and in war days such things 
count. Remember this applies to vegetable seeds 
only. In flower seeds, the numbers before the names 
should not be used in ordering. 
ASPARAGUS IN SPRING 
2 ASPARAGUS MARY 
WASHINGTON Consid- 
ered best of Asparagus vari- 
eties, giving great, thick, 
rich green shoots, deliciously 
flavored. Rust-resistant. Sow 
early, soaking seed first. 
Cutting may begin third 
year. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. lbc; 
Y% |b. 45c. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS — 
Well-grown roots, Mary 
Washington. ONE - YEAR 
SIZE, preferred by many 
since there is likely to be 
less digging injury, 25 for 
60c; 50 for $1.00; 100 for 
$1.90. TWO-YEAR SIZE— 
12 for 50c; 25 for 80c; 50 
for $1.40; 100 for $2.50; 250 
for $5.50. These prices are 
for express shipment, not 
prepaid. If desired by mail 
allow postage at rates given 
on catalog page one. 
JERUSALEM 
ARTICHOKE 
Grown for the potato-like 
tubers that may be cooked 
in almost any potato way. 
Good in soups, too, and 
again the roots, cooked half- 
tender, may be pickled, 
sweet or sour. Sometimes 
roots are sliced raw and 
served with salad dressing. 
Perennial and winter-hardy 
in open ground without protection, 

but 
usually dug and 
stored in cellar for more convenient winter use. Plant roots 
potato fashion. Helianthus tuberosus. Roots 3 lbs. for 60c; 
10 Ibs. for $1.40. Not postpaid. If desired by mail, add 
postage at plant rates shown on page one. 
HOW ABOUT SECOND CHOICE? We hope stocks will 
last through, but quite possibly some kinds may run short. 
If you will give us on your order permission in such a case 
to send other sorts of like qualities instead, it will save all 
way around. Or you might give names on your actual order 
of any acceptable alternates. Be sure we shall fill orders 
exactly as given if we can, and any substitutions will be 
by your permission. 

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GREEN SNAP BEANS 
Green or yellow beans, choice between them is just per- 
sonal preference. Among the varieties you can get almost 
any combination of characters in either color. 
20 STRINGLESS GREEN-POD—A variety of dependable, 
proved merit. The round pods are meaty, juicy, brittle; 
of the very highest eating quality. Understand, please, 
that we don’t mean it is the best of all, but just that 
there is none better. Some few, just a few, other kinds may 
perhaps equal it in flavor and texture. Rather early, an 
excellent yielder, and of our fullest recommendation for 
market, for canning, and above all, for use right fresh 
picked and unwilted from your own garden row. Pkt. 10c; 
1% lb. 80c; 1 Ib. 50c; 8 Ibs. for $1.40. 
55 PLENTIFUL—Here the deep green pods are flat, but 
exceptionally thick and meaty, wholly stringless, so brittle 
that they snap on slightest pressure. A cross between 
Bountiful and Surecrop. A long, heavy yielder. Pkt 10c; 
1% Ib. 80c; 1 Ib. 50c; 3 Ib. for $1.40. 
19 STREAMLINER—Slim, straight, somewhat flattened 
pods of soft green. Stringless, meaty, good table quality. 
It has one desirable characteristic that the others here lack, 
in that the seeds are pure white, and make excellent dry 
beans for baking, soups or the like, thus dual purpose, any 
not needed in green snap stage being ripened off for later 
use. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 80c; 1 Ib. 50c; 8 Ib. for $1.40. 
14 TENDERGREEN—tThere is no better flavored, more 
tender, more crispy green bean, at least that’s what we 
think. Slender as a pencil, and near as long, are the pods, 
almost crystalline in texture and brittleness. Early. Pkt. 
10c; 14 Ib. 30c; 1 Ib. 50c; 38 Ib. for $1.40. 
12 STRINGLESS BLACK VALENTINE—Attractive, suc- 
culent, semi-round pods, medium green, of exceptionally 
firm texture. In home garden, this makes them good for 
pickling. Also considered excellent market and shipping 
variety, holding in saleable condition longer than most. 
Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 30c; 1 Ib. 50c; 3 Ib. for $1.35. 
WAX SNAP BEANS 
10 BRITTLE WAX—Yellow pods, long, round, slender, so 
brittle they snap at a touch as though really of wax. 
Wonderful home garden bean, for fresh use or canning. 
Early. Heavy yielder. Stringless always. Often planted for 
quality-requiring markets. Pkt. 10c; 14 Ib. 30c; 1 Ib. 50c; 
3 lb. for $1.40. 
11 SURECROP STRINGLESS WAX—A tremendous yield- 
er; a vigorous, dependable sort that can be literally picked 
in great handfuls of pods, these very long, somewhat flat- 
tened, thick, crispy, stringless. See illustration op- 
posite. Desirable for fresh use, or for canning, or for 
making those delicious sweet bean pickles. Pkt. 10c; 1%4 Ib. 
2o0c3, libs 4bcseonlb.etom oles 
21 PENCIL-POD WAX-—Round, meaty, crystalline, slender, 
straight are the pods; table quality superlative. Prefers 
fairly rich, fairly heavy soil. A long yielder. Fine canner. 
Pkt. 10¢;° 44" Ib. 30¢; 17 Ib. 45¢: 3» Ibs; + $1.25. 
POLE SNAP BEANS 
_They need support, stakes, trellis or fence, but they will 
give a heavier yield for same space than will the dwarf 
kinds, and although they do not begin as early, the season 
of bearing is longer. 
54 POTOMAC—One of the newer introductions, 
heavily of long, round, green pods, slender and _ tender, 
stringless at all stages. Pkt. 15c; 1% lb. 30c; 1 Ib. 50c. 
16 KENTUCKY WONDER—Very long, large green pods 
in clusters. Meaty, brittle, entirely stringless when young, 
and with a quite distinctive, rich, full flavor that many 
like very much. A surprisingly heavy yielder, bearing over 
a long time. If you let pods get old, they will have slight, 
but easily removable strings, table quality still high. Any 
that ripen may be used as shell beans. Pkt. 10c; VY |b. 
20c5nls lb. 40 chooulbsis 1210. 
23 KENTUCKY WONDER WAX—Perhaps most satisfac- 
tory yellow-pod Snap Bean. Very like last, save in color. 
Pkt. 10c; 4% Ib. 25c; 1 Ib: 46c. 
17 SCARLET RUNNER—Showy, ornamental vine with 
flowers of ey scarlet. The young pods may be used 
as snaps, and a bit later the half-ripe seeds are good as 
green-shells. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 30c, - ei 
bearing 
